Suspender-buckle.



A. VAN BRUNT.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLxcATloN FILED SEPT. a. 1914.

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ABRAM VANv BRUNT, VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERURY BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WATEB-BURY, CONNECTICUT, A` CORPORATION.

SUSPENDR-BUCKLE- Application filed September 3, 1914.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Annan VAN BRUNI', a. citizen of the United States, and resident of Waterbury in the county of New Ha ven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification. K

invention relates to rustless suspender buckles and particularlyv to that class of buckles shown and described in my prior United States Reissue Patent #13738 dated May 26, 1914. a

The feature of the invention is to simplify and cheapen the construction of buckles of this class; to reducethe amount of stock required to form the buckle, and particularly to provide an intermediate bridge or support, toward andffrom which the clamping bar of the locking-member is operated7 to clamp the running portion of the webbing, through the operation of a' lever member and the said locking member.

The invention further resides and consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the acconr panying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and upon which,

Figure 1, shows a front view of my improved type of rustless buckle with webbing attached, the operating lever' being in an open position. Fig. 2 is a side view of the buckle wcbbed and in a locked position. 3 is a central vertical sectional view of the same buckle webbed, operating lever and locking member being open and the webbing in a relaxed position. Fig. 4 is a rear view of tl e buckle shown in the preceding figures, the webbing being omitted, and Fig. 5 is a similar rear view of a buckle made in accordance with my invention and illustrating a slightly modified form of frame member.

As will be noted the frame member (S is made of a single piece of wire, bent to form an upper longitudinal pivotal bar 7, straight parallel side portions 8*-8 and lowerhorizontallyarranged web attaching bars 9 and 10, said bars being preferably formed in two Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentdl Jun@ 13, 1916.

Serial No. 860,060.

sections and of the two end portions of the bars 9 and 10 of the frame wire and so arranged as to form two separate elongated eyes 11-11 whose inner ends are arranged adjacent to each other, to form a bridge 12 connecting the intermediate portions across from one bar or pair of bars to the other, and substantially midway of the length of the buckle and against which the clamping bar of the locking member operates. A lever member 13'is hinged to the said upper longitudinal pivotal bar 7 of the frame member and has its free end extended forward so as to cover the front of the buckle when the lever 1s closed. A` locking member la which'is also formedrof wire is pivotally connected to the upper end portion of the lever member and eccentric to the pivotal connection of the said lever member with the frame member so that the webbing when threaded through the loop 15 of the locking member will be clamped against the bridge portion 12 of the eyes and the upper and lower horizontal bars 9 and 10 of said eyes when the lever is closed. The end portions 16 of the locking member are of an irregular shape to form the upper part of the rectangular loop longer across the top than the bottom, while the lower portion is narrower and deflected forward at an angle with relation to said sides` and so as to be projected through the eyes of the frame member as is clearly shown in the drawing.

The fastening end of the webbing 17 is passed over both bars of the eyes of the fra-me and secured in any suitable way, while the running portion 18 of the said web isbrought up and threaded through the loop of the locking member and forward of the said fastened end 16 of the webbing. The running portion of the webbing is further passed from frontto rear over the said attached end of the webbing and the lower bars of the frame-member and carried up under and to the rear of the pivotal connections of the said frame and locking member with the lever-member, so as to cover all metal portions of the back of the buckle in a way to produce a rustless structure.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that when it is desired to adjust the running portion of the webbing, thel levermember would first be opened out to the portion shown in Fig. 3, which in turn tends to shove wthe .locking-member down and forward tokfree both the attached end of vthe .webbing and the running portion.'

v I claim and desire to secure by Letters Yio Patent is n A l. A rustless buckle comprising a-.framemember having two horizontally, alined elongated loops formed in its lower fend, a lever-member having its Vintermediate part hinged to the upper part of the frame member, a locking member havingVv a loo l portion Vprojecting through both the sai loops of the frame member and including a horizontal gripping bar which acts against the yinner adjacent ends of the said loops of the frame, the upper portion of the said locking member being hinged to one end of the lever and eccentric to the pivotal connection of the said lever with the frame member so that the webbing when threaded through the loop of the locking member will be pressed and clamped againstthe inner ends `or the said loops of v the frame when the saidlever is closed.

2. A rustless buckle comprising a frame-r member having a pair Vof longitudinal bars at its lower end and a bridge connecting the intermediate portions of said bars formingV eyes7 a lever-member hinged to the upper portion of the said frame-member, a locking member having a loop portion operatively mounted between said bars and projecting through the eyes formed by the bars and including a horizontal grippingbarV designed togrip the running portion of a webbing against thebars ofthe frame and "the bridge 'connecting the intermediatepor- Faireld and State of Connecticut this 24th e 11.13.1911. y '.,ABRAMVAN BRUNT.V

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C. `M. NEWMAN, RUTH M. NORDEN. Y

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